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- REVIEW: JET COMBAT SIMULATOR
- by EPYX, Inc
- 1043 Kiel Court
- Sunnyvale, Ca. 94089
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- Reviewed by: Hautzener 79756
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- JET COMBAT SIMULATOR picks up where
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- F15 STRIKE EAGLE left off (i.e,
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- landing and taking off). The game
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- play mainly consists of engaging and
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- shooting down an enemy aircraft
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- before it has a chance to destroy
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- your four bases. This sounds a lot
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- easier than it is because the F15 is
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- not only hard to control, but
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- sighting the enemy airplane is
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- extremely difficult. Plus you can
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- only shoot at it with your main guns;
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- no missiles.
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- Fortunately, you do have a map mode
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- which gives your position in
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- reference to your four bases and the
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- position of the enemy aircraft plus
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- you have a radar screen which gives
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- your heading, the distance and
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- azimuth to the enemy airplane (or to
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- a selected ground beacon). You are
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- not, however, given the fancy sight
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- for spotting far off aircraft as is
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- found in F15 STRIKE EAGLE.
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- The best part of this simulation is
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- that you must actually land your F15
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- on a runway (and come to a complete
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- stop to refuel and rearm) in addition
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- to taking off.
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- Taking off is easy; just give it
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- fuel thrust, keep the F15 aligned
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- down the runway, and once your speed
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- exceeds 130 knots, haul back on the
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- stick and off you go into the wild
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- blue yonder.
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- Landing is the hard part. The game
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- does have a landing practice mode
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- which makes landing easier to
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- practice. The easiest way I found to
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- land was to apply full flaps, get my
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- altitude down to 5 feet, and when the
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- F15 crosses the runway's threshold,
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- chop power, apply the brakes, and
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- pray.
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- EPYX must not believe in letting
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- people take the easy way out 'cause
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- there is no eject button. You only
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- get one chance.
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- One last item-- EPYX uses their
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- fast loader with J.C.S. which loads
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- the game in under 20 seconds. If you
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- listen closely when it's loading, you
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- can hear the stepper motor click off
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- one track every second. This makes
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- loading the game a pleasure because
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- you don't have to wait a lifetime to
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- play.
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